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Ed Burns

Ed Burns is a Consulting Member of the Technical Staff at Oracle America, Inc. and has worked on a wide variety of client and server side web technologies since 1994, including NCSA Mosaic, Mozilla, the Sun Java Plugin, Jakarta Tomcat and, most recently JavaServer Faces. Ed is currently the spec lead for JavaServer Faces, a topic on which Ed recently co-authored a book for McGraw Hill. Ed is an experienced international conference speaker, with consistently high attendence numbers and ratings at JavaOne, JAOO, JAX, W-JAX, No Fluff Just Stuff, JA-SIG, The Ajax Experience, and Java and Linux User Groups.

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Taking a cue from the
href="http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edburns/archive/2007/01/jsf_irc_channel.html">success
of the community that has grown up around the
href="http://java.sun.com/javaee/javaserverfaces/#IRC">JSF IRC
channel, my colleague and friend
href="http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mode/">Rajiv Mordani has created
an IRC channel for the entire Glassfish WebTier, on fre

We've been working on JSF 2.0 for over a year now and we're very
close to having solid specifications and implementations for our top two
issues:
href="https://javaserverfaces-spec-public.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=293">Ajax
and
href="https://javaserverfaces-spec-public.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=273">EZComp.
Of course, the implementation of both of these issues

We all know that Ryan Lubke is a top notch engineer, but did you also
know he's a solid technical writer? Ryan has been posting plenty of
really useful content on his
blog about JSF 2.0, including the series on new features in JSF 2.0.
This entry summarizes the series thus far and gives links to each
entry.

At JavaOne 2006, Dennis
Byrne shared with me an intimate fact that I'll now share with you:
his Christmas 2005 wishlist included "a bound printout of the JSF 1.2
spec". He got his wish and went on to become a star committer to the
MyFaces project. Dennis certainly gets the "most touching reading of
the JSF spec" award.

Because I was presenting
href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/blackwood/webclient/">MCP at
the first ever Jazoon conference, my
friend and expert JSF Developer Alexander Jesse invited me to speak at
the first ever JSF User Group meeting.

Back in college I spent many hours
of my copious Freshman year free time playing
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHX_Attack_Chopper">LHX on
href="http://share-it.gatech.edu/author/will">Will Day's PC. At the
time, all I had was an Apple //c, which was already behind the times by
then.

JavaOne is practically here, so I thought I'd give a preview of one
of the sessions I'm on next week. This one is close to my heart,
target="_"
href="http://www28.cplan.com/sb158/session_details.jsp?isid=285825&ilocation_id=158-1&ilanguage=english">BOF
6825 Testing Web 2.0 Features, Using Real-World Applications.

When working to revive
href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/blackwood/webclient">Webclient
as a means to enable one to write automated tests for Ajax Applications,
I ended up fixing some thread safety assertions that were failing in
native code.